Booby Call

I have a question: What is the Big Deal about women's breasts? Why such intense focus throughout history on women's upper body parts when they are exposed that is so scandalous in most cultures? Men can't handle the nice ones or the saggy boobies without restraining their lust or disgust - depending on which titties one is viewing? Of course that's the answer.

Asking why Breasts are constantly photographed, discussed, analyzed, hidden, revealed, may sound a bit naive. Not so. Breasts are considered a "sexual organ"  but are also a vehicle of life sustenance for a baby. Completely not-sexual. Men even have them...some, just not so big. But, when so, men can waltz around shirtless even if their titties are swingin' in the wind.

I'm curious about the focus on almost every well-known woman out there who is photographed in a bikini with headlines shouting about it and then more shouting headlines about their "Boobs": who has the best for their age? Who just had implants? Guess whose boobs fell out of their dress. Here, we have a blurred-out picture of it for your vicarious or whatever-it-may-be pleasure! Whoops! There went another one just jumping out of someone else's dress! Oh look! Oh wait - don't look! Madonna just flashed a nipple! How shocking!

Then we have the strange Rihanna's Nipples Revealing Bra-Walk Of WTF in Manhattan on Monday when the Queen of Denial strolled almost Zombie-like through the urban jungle in a pink lace bra that did not hide her nipples, something frilly as a skirt, and way high top Converse tennis shoes. The entire "appearance" on the street was bizarre even without the Nipple Explosion. The perpetually blank expression she added to her ensemble appeared as if she were a strung-out trick wandering home after a long, rough night.

But back to the boobie/breast situation women have had to abide by for centuries: the rules concocted by men that it's just not right for a woman to publically expose their breasts. Until cultures stop teaching us from the beginning of our lives that women's breasts are "forbidden" and can grow beyond the sexual association  - as women can with men who have great bodies: appreciate but not hyperventilate, I gather we're in for a long series of more boob-based headlines next time another actress deliberately or accidentally exposes one or both of her special "friends."

I think the common vernacular of a casual sexual hookup should change from "Booty Call" to "Booby Call" the way our society is so obsessed with them, don't you think?


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